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Sample Prep – Pinto Abalone Tissue/RNA for Collabs at UC-Irvine

We need to send half of each sample that we have from Sean Bennett’s Capstone project to Alyssa Braciszewski at UC-Irvine.

This is quite the project! There are ~75 samples, and about half of those are tissues (presumably digestive gland) stored in RNAzol RT. The remainder are RNA that has already been isolated. Additionally, tube labels are not always clear and there are duplicates. All of these factors led to this taking an entire day in order to decipher and process all the samples.

I selected samples from only those that I was confident in their identity.

I aliquoted 25μL of each RNA for shipment to Alyssa.

Tissue samples were thawed and tissue was cut in half using razor blades.

Planning to send samples on Monday.

Lisa has already assembled a master spreadsheet to try to keep track of all the samples and what they are (Google Sheet): Pinto Transcriptome